My Pro-file

Just a bit about my professional position and ambition, since it ultimately should be the crux of this blog. I entered the MLIS program at OU after getting a part-time job at the reference desk at my local public library, and fell in love with the work -- as much with the social aspect as the page-digging stuff. Since I started teaching the basic and intermediate Internet courses offered for free in the library's computer lab, I've come to enjoy it even more.

This course, even just one week into it, has been a good reminder to me of what most of the folks I teach in those Internet courses must feel like -- excited, motivated, and "pleasantly frustrated" by it all. It's great to hear them say they're leaving the lab a bit fried mentally from all the new input, but inspired because they now know enough to feel comfortable practicing with search engines and the like.

So, I hope to tailor my program toward public library work, with a thoroughly technological bent. LIS 5433 definitely confirms these plans for me -- I'm loving it.

One more thing: I'll practice hyperlinking by directing you toward someone I think is incredibly cool.